Band: DARK THRONE
Title: 2 advanced tracks from "Krieg"
Label: Moonfag
Country: Norway
Year of Release: 1997/1998

Rating: 91/100

Added to Site: June 2, 2005

Summary: Why, oh why, did they decide to release "Ravishing Gayness" instead???

Review: Okay "kvlt" kiddies, here it is. Probably the most difficult music to find in all black metal other than VELVET CACOON!!! I knew, sooner or later, I'd find someone with this. But up front, I'll just state that I won't spread this to anyone and won't tell anyone who I got it from!! These were the stipulations for me obtaining these 2 songs, however the person I got them from said it wasn't a problem for me to review them. So, without further ado...
I didn't get a tracklisting for these 2 songs, so I don't know the names. Both of them are very much in the vein of "Total Death" and "Under A Funeral Moon". The second one is very similar to the "TD" track "Blasphemer", very DESTRUCTION-esque riffing in parts. One major difference with these tracks is that Fenriz is the vocalist. He sounds just as he does on the black metal tracks from ISENGARD's "Hostmorke". I don't think it sounds much like black metal ISENGARD, though, other than this...
The only "problem", if you will, is that you can clearly tell Fenriz was already starting to run out of ideas for DT. These are obviously excellent tracks, but it's not anything DT hasn't already done. This should've been DARK THRONE's epitaph, but for reasons no-one will probably ever know, Fenriz decided this was inferior and, well, decided to release this recent string of joke albums under the same name. Like it or not, DARK THRONE is dead!!! Remember them for when they were so great, not this clean-produced "music" they now release...
RIP, DARK THRONE!!!!

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